Here we go again, wanting to invade Iraq because someone thinks our "national interests" are threatened:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/04/iraq-j04.html
What national interests? We The People have absolutely no interests in Iraq. We already have armed everyone in the Middle East; let them fight their own wars. We can live without their oil.
Mexico and the drug cartels are invading the US and clearly threatening the interests of We The People, but this moronic general has yet to suggest that we invade them.
Woe is us. We have been captured by an out-of-control, dumbass monster known as the US government.
The real question is: Why does everyone else in the world fight back against this monster ... while we continue to enable it, even when it is attacking us?
WTF ???
Friday, July 4, 2014
Hiding The Disease Threat From Uncontrolled Immigration
According to Michael Savage (who has a PhD in epidemiology!), the MSM and the US government are hiding the threat posed by uncontrolled immigration:
After earning his doctorate in 1978 and writing six books, Savage pitched to publishers a book titled “Immigrants and Epidemics,” which he wrote with the dean of a “prestigious public health university.”
“Although all my previous books had done well,” Savage recalled, “all publishers in New York City in 1982 said we cannot publish a book on immigrants and epidemics, no matter how well (documented) or factually true it is. We can’t publish it for political reasons.”
The question we must ask ourselves is "why do our leaders want to kill us?"
And once we establish the validity of that question, the next must be "why are we not fighting back?"
By the way, in most cultures anyone who abuses or hides behind children is considered a monster and/or a coward. Why is Obama ad-Dajjal getting a free pass for abusing children in this manner to achieve his "immigration reform" agenda?
After earning his doctorate in 1978 and writing six books, Savage pitched to publishers a book titled “Immigrants and Epidemics,” which he wrote with the dean of a “prestigious public health university.”
“Although all my previous books had done well,” Savage recalled, “all publishers in New York City in 1982 said we cannot publish a book on immigrants and epidemics, no matter how well (documented) or factually true it is. We can’t publish it for political reasons.”
Let that sink in - "We can't publish a book on immigrants and epidemics, no matter how ... factually true it is."
The question we must ask ourselves is "why do our leaders want to kill us?"
And once we establish the validity of that question, the next must be "why are we not fighting back?"
By the way, in most cultures anyone who abuses or hides behind children is considered a monster and/or a coward. Why is Obama ad-Dajjal getting a free pass for abusing children in this manner to achieve his "immigration reform" agenda?
What US Did To Iraq
Here are two not quite compatible views about what the United States has done to Iraq:
http://original.antiwar.com/Chris_Ernesto/2014/07/03/six-us-presidents-have-destroyed-iraq/
and
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-life-in-iraq-was-like-under-saddam-hussein-2014-7
I find it hard to believe that Iraqis are better off now than they would have been if we had just left them alone. Unfortunately, that is not a blessing which any oil producing country will ever enjoy.
http://original.antiwar.com/Chris_Ernesto/2014/07/03/six-us-presidents-have-destroyed-iraq/
and
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-life-in-iraq-was-like-under-saddam-hussein-2014-7
I find it hard to believe that Iraqis are better off now than they would have been if we had just left them alone. Unfortunately, that is not a blessing which any oil producing country will ever enjoy.
A Message On July 4th
In 1776, the original Founders of the United States published these words to justify their actions.
Compare them to our current situation, and I think you will agree that most or all of their concerns are still with us in one form or another; and thanks to Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions our condition is even worse than it was 238 years ago.
When shall we, the New Founders, finally decide enough is enough and take action to end his string of repeated injuries and usurpations and if necessary institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect our safety and happiness? Not what Hillary Rodham (a.k.a. Clinton) and her ilk want, but what We The People want.
That is the question before us today. And we must answer it before Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions and their successors bind and rivet upon us those chains which the Deep State has been so long forging.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Compare them to our current situation, and I think you will agree that most or all of their concerns are still with us in one form or another; and thanks to Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions our condition is even worse than it was 238 years ago.
When shall we, the New Founders, finally decide enough is enough and take action to end his string of repeated injuries and usurpations and if necessary institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect our safety and happiness? Not what Hillary Rodham (a.k.a. Clinton) and her ilk want, but what We The People want.
That is the question before us today. And we must answer it before Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions and their successors bind and rivet upon us those chains which the Deep State has been so long forging.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
- He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
- He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
- He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
- He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
- He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
- He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
- He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
- He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
- He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
- He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
- He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
- For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
- For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
- For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
- For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
- For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
- For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
- He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
- He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
- He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
- He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Nuclear Power Is A Crazy Idea
I worked in the nuclear industry for 25 years. I was in the nuclear navy, worked for all the major nuclear steam supply system companies, many of the nuclear technical service companies, and even for the so-called Department of Energy (which at the time made more nuclear bomb materials than electric power).
Believe me when I say that nuclear power was and still is a crazy idea. Nuclear power plants are not designed or built to be safe ... they are defined to be safe by criteria that are manipulated as the industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission see fit. Any resurgence of nuclear power in the United States would be insane.
Articles like this one about a nuclear startup company are in my view quite deceptive; they mimic the early claim that nuclear energy would be "too cheap to meter":
http://fortune.com/2014/07/03/startup-nuclear-energy-companies/
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that any and all fusion technologies will produce prodigious amounts of radioactive material and irradiated structures which will cost megabucks in perpetuity to "control" and "safely store", if such things are truly possible.
Don't fall for this crap again. No more nukes.
Believe me when I say that nuclear power was and still is a crazy idea. Nuclear power plants are not designed or built to be safe ... they are defined to be safe by criteria that are manipulated as the industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission see fit. Any resurgence of nuclear power in the United States would be insane.
Articles like this one about a nuclear startup company are in my view quite deceptive; they mimic the early claim that nuclear energy would be "too cheap to meter":
http://fortune.com/2014/07/03/startup-nuclear-energy-companies/
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that any and all fusion technologies will produce prodigious amounts of radioactive material and irradiated structures which will cost megabucks in perpetuity to "control" and "safely store", if such things are truly possible.
Don't fall for this crap again. No more nukes.
IMF Intends To Steal Your Money
Here is a good report about the screwy plans of the IMF to expropriate (i.e., steal) your money to allegedly rescue governments from fiscal disaster:
The money people have saved the IMF maintains should be used for debt service by sheer force. To reduce the enormous national debt, they maintain that government has the right to directly usurp the savings of citizens.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/expropriation-back-christine-lagarde-most-dangerous-woman-world
If we leave this up to Christine Lagarde, Obama ad-Dajjal, and/or Hillary Rodham (a.k.a. Clinton), it's a done deal. Grab your pitchfork and man the barricades ... this has got to be stopped.
Hey, maybe we should declare our independence from the International Monetary Fund. Wouldn't that be cool?
The money people have saved the IMF maintains should be used for debt service by sheer force. To reduce the enormous national debt, they maintain that government has the right to directly usurp the savings of citizens.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-03/expropriation-back-christine-lagarde-most-dangerous-woman-world
If we leave this up to Christine Lagarde, Obama ad-Dajjal, and/or Hillary Rodham (a.k.a. Clinton), it's a done deal. Grab your pitchfork and man the barricades ... this has got to be stopped.
Hey, maybe we should declare our independence from the International Monetary Fund. Wouldn't that be cool?
We're Protecting The Wrong Borders
I just finished watching the movie Lone Survivor about Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Survivor_(film)
A friend who said she knew Marcus Luttrell recommended it to me. It's a good movie.
However, I now have to ask in even stronger terms why we are still in Afghanistan.
They never attacked us. The Saudis attacked us on 9/11, but we let all of them go and apparently even had the FBI disconnect all the dots of Saudi involvement.
They may or may not have "harbored" Osama bin Laden. They offered to turn him over to us upon presentation of evidence that he had committed a crime (a standard extradition protocol), but we refused (because we had no credible evidence, and still don't).
They stopped opium cultivation, but we started it back up.
In short, all they did was fight in defense of our unwarranted invasion of their country. That should not be a crime.
Our Seal Teams and other valiant warriors should be hunting down the drug cartels and stopping the invasion across our southern border. Instead they are wasting their time and dying for nothing in distant quagmires:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/
WTF ???
Guys, I truly admire your courage and your sacrifice ... but in the big scheme of things you are accomplishing nothing of importance, and you sure as hell are not defending the United States from anything.
And if you don't want to hear it from me, here's more or less the same argument from Pat Tillman's brother:
After Pat's Birthday
By Kevin Tillman
It is Pat's birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice... until we get out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few "bad apples" in the military.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that "somehow" was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday.
Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
Kevin Tillman
http://www.citizen-soldier.org/tillman.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Survivor_(film)
A friend who said she knew Marcus Luttrell recommended it to me. It's a good movie.
However, I now have to ask in even stronger terms why we are still in Afghanistan.
They never attacked us. The Saudis attacked us on 9/11, but we let all of them go and apparently even had the FBI disconnect all the dots of Saudi involvement.
They may or may not have "harbored" Osama bin Laden. They offered to turn him over to us upon presentation of evidence that he had committed a crime (a standard extradition protocol), but we refused (because we had no credible evidence, and still don't).
They stopped opium cultivation, but we started it back up.
In short, all they did was fight in defense of our unwarranted invasion of their country. That should not be a crime.
Our Seal Teams and other valiant warriors should be hunting down the drug cartels and stopping the invasion across our southern border. Instead they are wasting their time and dying for nothing in distant quagmires:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/
WTF ???
Guys, I truly admire your courage and your sacrifice ... but in the big scheme of things you are accomplishing nothing of importance, and you sure as hell are not defending the United States from anything.
And if you don't want to hear it from me, here's more or less the same argument from Pat Tillman's brother:
After Pat's Birthday
By Kevin Tillman
It is Pat's birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice... until we get out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few "bad apples" in the military.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that "somehow" was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday.
Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
Kevin Tillman
http://www.citizen-soldier.org/tillman.html
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